Encyclopedia of Comic Books and Graphic Novels

458 PEKAR, HARVEY Fingerman, Drew Friedman, Gilbert Hernandez , Josh Neufeld, Spain Rodriguez, Joe Sacco , and Jim Woodring—is a ...

LA PERDIDA 459 LA PERDIDA. Created by Jessica Abel, the comic book La Perdida (literally translated as “Th e Lost”) was fi rst p ...

460 PÉREZ, GEORGE been before and gives her a skeleton doll as a departure present. Th is souvenir from the famous Mexican holid ...

PERSEPOLIS 461 tried to break into comics by working on fanzines and showing his work at conventions. Marvel artist Rich Buckler ...

462 PERSEPOLIS the revolution against the regime of the Shah in 1979 and ends with Satrapi’s escape to Western Europe in 1994. B ...

PHANTOM LADY 463 success into an animated fi lm by Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, who himself is a celebrated French comics arti ...

464 PHANTOM LADY appeal. He also had a fl are for fashion and paid loving attention to details of clothing and hair styles, at a ...

PLANETARY 465 in comics, will reveal strong representations of beautiful women, and more glamour than pornography. Trina Robbins ...

466 PLANETARY Field Team, but the entire Planetary Foundation in direct confl ict with the four who destroy an entire Brazilian ...

PLASTIC MAN 467 Productions, 2010; Ellis, Warren, et al. Planetary: Crossing Worlds. La Jolla, CA: WildStorm Productions, 2004. ...

468 PLAYBOY, THE other superhero titles in the early 1950s. Police Comics #102 (October 1950) was Plastic Man’s last appearance, ...

PLAYBOY, THE 469 Comics editions of his series Yummy Fur (which began as a self-published mini-comic), this autobiographical tal ...

470 POLITICS AND POLITICIANS See also: Underground and Adult Comics; Memoir/Slice-of-Life Th emes Selected Bibliography: Brown, ...

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS 471 the war eff ort after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. As William Savage observes, “comic books became ...

472 POLITICS AND POLITICIANS Stories and Charlton Comics’ Fightin’ Army portrayed the confl ict as a noble and necessary struggl ...

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS 473 interest to women, including reproductive rights, workplace discrimination, and the sexism prevalen ...

474 POLITICS AND POLITICIANS issues, Howard chooses to run as a “people’s candidate” (#8) who rejects the extremes of “animalist ...

POLITICS AND POLITICIANS 475 Although not all of Captain America’s adventures in the political realm were so dark, they did ofte ...

476 POST-APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES of the United States, and Iron Man took a turn as Secretary of Defense. Brian K. Vaughan’s ongoi ...

POST-APOCALYPTIC NARRATIVES 477 devastation or destruction, plague, alien invasion, war, nuclear destruction or radiation, and g ...